A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study published Thursday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier. An update of what used to be known as a food pyramid in 2010 had called on Americans to eat more foods containing potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin D and calcium. But if they did that, t ...

The Food and Drug Administration is taking a new look at how to label foods "gluten free." The agency proposed standards in 2007 for labeling foods that don't have the cereal protein but they were never finalized. Gluten is found in wheat, rye and barley and can inflame the small intestine in people who have celiac disease. The FDA said Tuesday that it will seek new comments on those standards, which set a ...

Companies that have pledged not to market unhealthy food and beverages directly to children may be turning to product placement on television shows instead of traditional ads to target youngsters, a new study showed. This type of disguised advertising, including high exposure to sugary soft drinks on prime-time TV, is a major contributing factor to childhood obesity, according to the Yale University study r ...

TV dinners have evolved. These days, they're no longer embarrassing, just for kids, or synonymous with loneliness or junk food ... or TV. Or with incompetence, sloth, or child abuse. When TV dinners first entered American supermarkets in the mid-1950s, serving or eating them implied that one didn't know how to cook -- which for married women in those days was kind of a crime -- or that one didn't want to co ...

I really love the whole experience of making coffee: the aroma of a freshly brewed pot wafting through my house, the smell of it as I raise a cup to my lips, the warmth of it filling my body and the flavor—oh, the flavor! But if you’re a coffee drinker, you know how much a bad cup of coffee can ruin the experience. Here are 7 coffee-making myths to watch out for to ensure you brew a perfect cuppa joe. Myth ...

We all know what's always included in a McDonald's Happy Meal: a burger or chicken nuggets, french fries, a toy, a soft drink. And fruit? McDonald's announced today (June 26) that it will automatically include both produce AND french fries in every Happy Meal, meaning parents and kids no longer have to opt for either fries or fruit. And because produce will be included in all Happy Meals, french fry-holder ...

Melting sugar for candy always feels like a vaguely arcane process. You put the raw white sugar in a pan, turn up the heat, and wait for something to happen. Sometimes it goes fast, sometimes it takes forever. There are guides to the different stages it passes through before becoming caramel, but they're horribly confusing. Home cooks, apparently, aren't the only ones who have been mired in confusion. Diffe ...

Scientists have been debating sodium intake's relation to health for decades. One study says salt reduction is the key to hypertension reduction; another says salt only harms African-Americans, the elderly and the obese. One recent study said that focusing on sodium levels per se is naive; instead, it suggested, we should target our potassium-to-sodium ratio. It's hard not to want to fall back on the oldest ...

To come up with the carbon impact, the EWG looked at the food’s full “lifecycle”—including the water and fertilizer to grow feed crops, transportation of the food and even the amount of food that’s wasted. The biggest take-away: eat less meat and avoid wasting it (20% of edible meat ends up being tossed). Why should you care? The implications of this report are twofold—environmental and personal health. On ...

Chipotle currently only offers breakfast in one of its outlets, in the Dulles International Airport. Customers have said fantastic things about the offerings; one enthusiastic blogger called the Dulles Chipotle's breakfast burrito "one of the best Chipotle burritos [he's] ever had." Lucky for him, Chipotle is now considering expanding its breakfast offerings across the country, according to Nation's Restaur ...